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* Somewhat related is the whole Winchestertonfieldsville scene in ''[[Mr. Deeds]]'', in which every lie Winona Ryder's character makes up about her childhood ends up actually existing.
* In a similar fashion, the framing device for ''[[Y Tu Mama Tambien]]'' is a road trip to the (fictional, as far as the protagonists know) beach of ''Boca de Cielo'' ("Mouth of Heaven"). It's actually just an excuse to try and get the female lead to sleep with one or both of them, but then they actually reach it...
* In ''[[Maverick (
{{quote| '''Maverick''': I can't quite place your accent. Where in the South are you from?<br />
'''Mrs. Bransford''': Ever been to Mobile? (pause) That's where I'm from.<br />
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'''Mrs. Bransford''': I've tried so hard to forget that place. }}
* Done in ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'', when Frank's new girlfriend's father is trying to prove that he is lying about which school he went to. The father asks about the name of a certain professor's dog, knowing that Frank can't possibly know it -- Frank manages to evade it by saying the dog died.
* In ''[[There's Something About Mary
* In ''[[Kate and Leopold]]'', Kate's boss is trying to impress her by claiming to either have an impressive manor in England or know someone who does (we don't hear this claim, only the reaction). Leopold immediately points out that such a manor doesn't exist. Kate tries to say that Leopold could be wrong, but Leopold is adamant. He grew up there, and he'd know.
** Leopold further shatters JJ's pretensions by pointing out the errors he made in trying to fake familiarity with ''[[La Boheme
*** Even more ironic when you realize that the filmmakers themselves don't know the opera very well: [[Did Not Do the Research|it premiered in 1896, and Leo is from 1876.]]
* A scene in ''[[Scooby Doo]] The Mystery Begins'' involves Velma sneaking around an office in the school's library while she's looking for evidence. When the librarian walks in and demands to know what she was doing, she pretends to be a lost exchange student from Russia. Guess who once went to Moscow and learned Russian.
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* In ''[[True Lies]]'' the main character's wife seems to be having an affair. The main character, being a spy uses his skills to track down the other man and while under surveilance hears the other man claiming to be a spy himself. However the other man claims to have been involved in an incident that the main character was responsible for and he immediately realises the guy is only pretending to be a spy to attract his wife.
* In ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'', because Lt. Aldo and his men don't know enough German to replace the spies originally chosen to attend a Nazi movie premiere, they confidently decide they can pass for Italian instead. The first Nazi they're introduced to is an SS officer, who greets them in perfect Italian.
* ''[[The
* In ''[[
* Speaking of Bruce Willis, in [[Live Free or Die Hard]], he uses one of these to expose the fake dispatcher, giving her a code for naked people running around, and then calling her out on it..
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'''Questioner:''' Oh, you mean Christian Life Center? <br />
'''You:''' That's the one. }}
* The [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld
* Used by [[Sherlock Holmes]] in the short story ''The Three Garridebs'', in which he tests his suspicions of a con man posing as American by casually asking after the nonexistent mayor of the con man's claimed Kansas 'hometown'.
* A joke found in an issue of ''Readers' Digest'' (and possibly a real incident) referred to a man who liked to pretend he'd had the same operations that other people had been through so that he could share in their complaints. Eventually carelessness resulted in a pair of women asking him, "Really. When did you have your hysterectomy?"
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** Played straight when Newkirk attempts to pass himself off as an expert forger. The head of the forgery operation asks him if he's familiar with a certain forger and certain machine and Newkirk claims to know both intimately. Of course, one's a composer and the other's a piano.
** Another is a test Colonel Hogan uses to see if escapees are actually German spies, asking if they know certain people from the unit they claim to be from. All of these people are fictional.
* Subverted in the ''[[30 Rock
** The ruse only falls apart when {{spoiler|the ex-girlfriend decides that it's the opportune time for Jack to meet "his" son.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Will and Grace]]'', Will pretends to be a professional tennis player (because being a lawyer at a party kills conversations), and then panics when he finds out there's an actual professional tennis player at the party. {{spoiler|Who is also a fraud due to his real job being an even worse conversation killer: IRS agent.}}
* In an episode of ''[[
** This scenario also formed the basis of a series of British [[Home Guard|Territorial Army]] recruitment adverts.
* Captain Jack of ''[[
** Interestingly enough, the real Jack Harkenss turns out to be gay, while the immortal one is of the [[Anything That Moves]] variety. The Jacks end up being attracted to each other, which "our" Jack finds painful, as he knows the real Jack is destined to heroically die the next day.
* Referenced on a first-season episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', following Cameron's {{spoiler|very brief}} resignation. Interviewing candidates for the empty post, House asks one, "Do you really speak four languages, or are you just betting on never being interviewed by someone who does?"
* In ''[[Spellbinder]]'', when Ashka finds her way to our world, she uses the name "Mrs. Harley" ([[Line-of-Sight Name|as in the motorcycle]]). Later on, Paul's dad introduces her to a woman named Anna by her full name, leading Askha to remark "Oh, you have two names. Yes, my name is Anna too."
* The ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' episode "The Wrath of Con" sees Veronica and Wallace infiltrating a college party posing as prospective students. Wallace claims to be a math major and finds himself having to come up with plausible-sounding answers to questions like: "The Poincar� conjecture or [[Fermats Last Theorem|Fermat's Last Theorem]]: which one do you think better defines the geometry of three-dimensional space?"
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== [[Music]] ==
* A skit by Lorne Elliott tells the story of a St Patrick's Night gig where an angry audience member demanded that he play ''Danny Boy'' - which he didn't know the words to. In a desperate effort to placate him, he announces that he will sing Danny Boy in the original Gaelic - and [[As Long
== [[Radio]] ==
* ''[[
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (
{{quote| '''Homer''': Uh, buh, buh, we're new foreign exchange students from ... uh, um ... Scotland!<br />
'''Willie''': Saints be praised, I'm from Scotland! Where do ya hail from?<br />
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